202 | Today is a good day to call in sick and spend the day reading your favorite conservative hate-blogs. Marriage equality is the law of the land in the USA |
159 |  Jury reaches verdict for Trump's hush money case in New York. Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts. |
126 | The NFT market collapses |
123 | Antigay bigots buy all tickets to stop a queer-safe high school formal. They fail to realize it's a crowdfunding, each ticket funds 1 young attendee, and that they've accidentally funded the whole thing (in fact, three times the original funding target) which now has to find a larger venue. |
115 | Phyllis Schlafly hears rumors of liberals in Heaven, departs immediately to launch her latest campaign. |
115 |  Welp, Trump has incited a riot over the ceremonial Electoral College voting process, and rioters have broken into the Capitol building itself. If you want to stage a coup, this is basically Step 1. Extra: Baked Alaska is livestreaming from within. Update: Twitter has suspended Trump's account for inciting violence and spreading lies about the election. |
112 |  WAR! Russia invades Ukraine - Putin: "it's for peace" - the same way fucking is for virginity. |
107 | Donald and Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19. |
107 | Say it with me, 4 more years! |
106 | Donald Trump has been impeached by the House of Representatives for "incitement of insurrection", making him the first President to be impeached twice. |
103 | Miami Police shoot black man who is lying down with arms raised as he helps his autistic patient. He was shot in the leg and has survived his wound. He asked the policeman, 'Why did you shoot me?' the policeman replied, 'I don't know.' Kinsey claims he was handcuffed and left bleeding in the street for 20 minutes.] Update: The Miami police union president has released an excuse for the officer's action, the officer meant to shoot the unarmed austistic man. When he asked the officer why he shot him, the officer replied that he did not know. Further update: The autistic man was identified as Arnaldo Eliud Rios Soto. What's more Rios Soto was also treated as a criminal, he was kept handcuffed in a squad car for hours among other abuses. Rios Soto is now in psychiatric hospital and traumatized. |
102 | Manosphere grifter Andrew Tate who earlier teased environmental activist Greta Thunberg with his 33 cars, has been arrested in Romania by a specialist organised crime police unit for human trafficking and rape. |
98 | Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been found dead at a West Texas ranch he was visiting. Death was not properly certified and there was no autopsy fueling conspiracy theories. Ted Cruz already wants to delay replacing him until 2017, as does Senate judiciary committee member Conn Carroll. |
93 | Speaker Nancy Pelosi opens a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal |
92 | President Donald Trump has been impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. |
91 | The people have spoken. The Irish have voted overwhelmingly in favour of marriage equality. |
89 |  Derek Chauvin found guilty on all 3 charges. |
88 | Good riddance.: Rush Limbaugh dead at 70 |
88 |
Warlord that oversaw the "gay purge" in Chechnya killed in Ukraine |
87 | Running water discovered on Mars. |
86 |  Biden becomes first US president to recognise Armenian genocide. Unsurprisingly, Turkey isn't happy about it. |
86 | Tucker: "We'll be back on Monday!" Monday: lol, no... |
85 | The President: "Rape is rape. And the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn't make sense to the American people and certainly doesn't make sense to me...I think these comments do underscore why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women." |
85 | RIP Robin Williams. (Well, that didn't take long) |
84 | James Randi, the skeptic's skeptic, has passed away. |
84 | The American Health Care Act (aka Trumpcare or Ryancare) has been pulled. |
84 |
Spencer Cox, Republican Governor of Utah, receives a bill banning transgender kids from sports and... vetoes it? "Rarely has so much fear and anger been directed at so few. I don’t understand what they are going through or why they feel the way they do. But I want them to live." |
83 | Gay marriage is legalized in New York State. |
83 | Bridge? Spock here. Beam me up. UPDATE: There's Klingons off the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow... |
82 | Kiwi Farms has been kickbanned by CloudFlare. UPDATE: And now also their new Russian service provider. |
82 | The US Supreme Court upholds 'Obamacare' Update: Oh God, the irony, it burns! |
81 | Biden's win has been officially certified by Congress. UPDATE: Four Five people are now known to have died in the Capitol riot. One of them is a U.S. Capitol Police officer, injured fighting with rioters. |
81 | After 47 GOP Senators breach federal law by writing to Iran, telling them that any nuclear deal made with Obama could be repealed by the next President, it turns out an Iranian minister knows more about international law and the US Constitution than these 47 fuckwits. |
80 | You don't need abortion exceptions for when the woman was raped, because if she got pregnant, it wasn't really rape. Todd Akin sets a new record for being a shitbag. |
80 | At last, Sir Terry, we must walk together. Terry took Death’s arm and followed him through the doors and on to the black desert under the endless night. The End. |
80 | "Skeptic" offers 100,000 Euro reward to prove Measles is a virus (rather than psychosomatic), is ordered to pay up. |
79 | 4 times married Kim Davis sent to jail for contempt of court, marriages may now proceed in her absence. Update: Even the Westboro Baptist Church is against her. Oh, and so is the Donald. |
79 | The Keystone XL Pipeline project has been terminated. |
79 |
After a formal petition by KyivPride to President Zelenskyy in regards to same-sex marriage in Ukraine due to a number of LGBT soldiers fighting, he has formally responded by provisionally agreeing to introducing a same-sex partnership law, with a possibility of equal marriage in the future. |
78 | In 2003, the anti-vax non-profit SafeMinds started funding studies in an attempt to prove that childhood vaccines cause autism. Twelve years and $250,000 later, University of Texas Southwestern researchers have now revealed disconcerting new findings in the hippocampal cells of vaccinated macaques that may suggest a link between bahahaha just kidding, they found jack shit. |
78 | Not that any of his brain damaged followers will acknowledge it, but Alex Jones had a very bad day in court. He admitted under oath that the Sandy Hook massacre was "100% real," and was humiliated when he found out that his legal team accidentally sent a digital copy of his cell phone to the prosecution, exposing Jones to perjury charges for lying the previous day when asked if there were any Sandy Hook-related messages on his phone. Pissing off the defendants, Jones continues to weasel out of hefty financial damages by shifting around his money. Update: "Stop the monetization of misinformation and lies. Please." The jury says Jones should pay $42 million US in punitive damages to the parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim. His legal problems aren't over yet, either. |
78 | Canada's Senate passes bill to ban conversion therapy |
76 | Biden announces he is dropping out of the presidential race, and has endorsed Kamala Harris to replace him. |
76 | President Obama declares his support for marriage equality. |
76 | The UK has officially banned creationism from being taught in science classes.. |
75 |  In a ballot initiative, Kansas voters strike down proposed state constitutional amendment that would have removed protections for abortion rights. In 2019, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the state's constitution protected abortion rights, which now remains state law. |
75 | Fred Phelps is dead. [1] On the UN "Day of Happiness." |
74 | California set to mandate childhood vaccines. |
74 | Lula defeats Bolsonaro, becoming President of Brazil by 2023. |
74 | Joe Biden marks the first anniversary of the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot by calling the former president who still hasn’t accepted his loss a liar and a loser |
73 |  President Joe Biden revokes the Keystone XL pipeline permit. |
73 | Obama has commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence. |
73 | The wife of a Texan anti-LGBT crusader left him... for a woman. |
72 | Missouri is seriously short of funding for public defenders. Fortunately, in extremis, the head public defender can draft any member of the state bar to serve as a public defender. For instance, the governor who vetoed proper funding for public defenders. (The letter to the governor is a thing of beauty.) |
72 | Former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn has been charged with lying to the FBI, has pleaded guilty, and is cooperating with the special counsel's investigation into Russia's interference in last year's election. |
72 | X-formerly-Twitter ordered to be blocked in Brazil. |
71 | Engineering While Brown: Meet the 14yo kid arrested for bringing a home-made clock to school. (Original source, which isn't loading reliably.)
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71 | Benjamin Netanyahu believes Hitler didn't want to exterminate Jews. The mooslims talked him into it! |
71 | This is how Chicago is handling police misconduct allegations. |
71 | In a massive study involving 95,000 children, researchers have confirmed that there is no connection between the MMR vaccine and autism, even in high-risk populations. Focus is now shifting on studying the effectiveness of the drinking of water as a preventative measure against dehydration, and whether or not the habitual inhalation of oxygen is an effective deterrent against death. |
70 | Japan raises the age of consent from 13 to 16, changes the definition of rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse", outlaws the secret filming of sexual acts and bans "photo voyeurism" (such as upskirting). |
70 | NASA Mars rover has found the first "compelling detection" of a potential fossilized biosignature on the Red Planet. |
69 | #proudboys has been taken over by gay men. Well played sir! |
69 |
Vietnam has removed homosexuality and transsexuality from its list of mental disorders, asked medical staff not to treat it and is planning to ban conversion therapy. |
69 | Due to the global shortage of computer chips, Japanese printer manufacturer Canon has informed its customers in Germany how to bypass the DRM in its printers, as it cannot add any chips to its printer cartridges. |
69 |  The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom they accuse of committing war crimes in Ukraine. |
69 | NFTs are now dead. |
69 | Henry Kissinger has died at age 100. |
69 | Say it with us, folks: this was the hottest summer on record. |
68 | Yet another school shooting in the US of A. |
68 | Colossal document leak from law firm specializing in "offshore asset management" contains details of tax haven and money laundering operations of the ultra-rich, including numerous current and former heads of government. |
68 | Stephen Hawking finally succumbed to his ALS at 76. RIP. |
68 | A gunman has killed the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, one of America’s largest health insurance companies, in what appears to have been a targeted attack. |
67 | Gravitational Waves detected for the first time. The science is complex and exciting. |
67 | Fox News to drop Bill O'Reilly amid allegations of sexual harassment. |
67 | China says its spacecraft has landed on the Moon's far side |
67 | Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) condemns evolution and the Big Bang as "lies straight from the pit of hell." Of course he's on the House science committee. |
66 | Alabama will require students to learn about evolution, climate change. DENIALIST TEARS |
66 | In a totally above-board move that in no way looks like Watergate, Nixon Trump fires Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox FBI Director James Comey. |
66 | 
The Congress of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas voted to legalize same-sex marriage, meaning that same-sex marriage is now legal in all of Mexico. |
66 | At least one US ally has had enough - The Australian Deputy Prime Minister declares that "cranks and crazies" have taken over the US Republican party. Update: the Prime Minister is backing him. |
65 | Q-anon believers all over the world (but mostly in the US) beginning to realize they got played |
65 | Greta Thunberg has been named Time magazine's "2019 Person of the Year" |
65 | An appeals court in the District has said that homeopathic products must not be placed in the same place as FDA approved medicines, saying that it confuses customers. |
65 |  A New York court has ruled that Trump committed fraud while building his real estate empire. |
65 |    Public figures including JK Rowling and Elon Musk falsely suggest two Olympics athletes from Algeria and Taiwan are "male". This fed a "witch hunt" against athletes, and led to backlash in Taiwan, with government officials denouncing Rowling's comments and citizens calling to boycott Harry Potter products. |
65 | X is suing a number of major multinational companies including; Unilever, Mars, CVS and Ørstad, for boycotting any form of advertising on its platform. |
65 | Osama bin Laden is dead. The US military has his body. Everything will be all right now, we can return to total worldwide peace. Maybe. (BTW, in a bit of no-doubt intentional irony, this news comes on the eighth anniversary of Dubya's so-called Mission Accomplished speech.) |
65 | All hail the BBC. |
64 | Homeopathy effective for 0 out of 68 illnesses, study finds |
64 | A hacker has crawled the Parler database and released up to 70Tb of posts, pictures and videos, including a complete dump of every Parler post made on January 6. For extra laughs, Parler didn't strip metadata from uploaded photos. |
64 | Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, who has claimed that natural disasters are God's way to punish gays has his home destroyed by a natural disaster. |
64 | Milo Yiannopoulos dropped from CPAC amid his pedophilia controversy. Edit:Simon & Schuster has pulled their book deal, as well. And he's resigned from Breitbart. |
64 | InfoWars' Alex Jones has been found liable for defamation in the Sandy Hook ‘hoax’ case. |
64 | The Confederacy loses again: Jan 6 rioter who carried a Confederate flag into the Capitol and used it to assault a Black police officer is sentenced to 3 years in prison. |
64 |   A United Nations Inquiry has concluded both Israel and Hamas have committed Crimes against Humanity in the Gaza Strip. |
64 | WSJ: "The $13 billion that Elon Musk borrowed to buy Twitter has turned into the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis." |
64 |  Israel has killed dozens and wounded thousands in Lebanon by somehow causing pagers and walkie-talkies held by Hezbollah militants to explode. 2 children were among the fatalities. Israel's defense minister said the country is "opening a new phase in the war". |
64 | So Kent Hovind is suing us. (404? Try this.) |
64 | UPDATE on the Freddy Gray situation : All six officers involved in the incident are now facing criminal charges ranging from 2nd degree murder to assault and false imprisonment. Claims that Gray was carrying an illegal switchblade have also been found to be false. |
63 | US Supreme court upholds key part of 'Obama Care' according to the BBC. You can all stop trying to repeal it now. |
63 | Former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli bought the rights to an anti-parasite drug and raised the price 5000%, then taunted people about it on Twitter (P.S. it's perfectly legal). Update A drug for TB has also jumped 2000%. |
63 | Victory for the Browncoats, down with the Purplebellies Britain votes to leave the EU. Stocks and the British pound are plummeting. Cameron's tenure is likely over. Scotland and Northern Ireland appear to have voted stay, meaning talk of secession is already being floated. |
63 | Xenophobia in the UK following Brexit hits ridiculous levels the woman in question is a white German who has lived in the UK for decades. This is your doing, Nigel Farage! |
63 | Trump's CBP tried unsuccessfully to get usernames and other details about a fake USCIS Twitter account which criticised him. |
63 | Donald Trump has hit a 51% disapproval rating in in just eight days. |
63 | Recently-elected French president Emanuel Macron wants to fight global warming and is inviting U.S. experts to France to help. |
63 | Remember how back in July, the South Carolina Supreme Court tried to extend domestic violence protections to same-sex unmarried couples, but then stayed their own order when they realized they accidentally took them away from all unmarried couples? Well, they finally fixed their mistake; now all couples--married or unmarried, same-sex or opposite-sex--are covered equally by the state's domestic violence laws. This is surprisingly progressive news out of the Deep South, especially since all parties involved, even the state's Attorney General, agreed that it should happen; the only dispute was over the best way to do it. |
63 | 
Slovenia legalizes same-sex marriage. |
63 |
One step forward; Singapore set to decriminalise homosexuality. Predictably, religious and reactionary groups fall back to 'defend marriage'. |
63 | 
Belgium bans conversion therapy. |
63 |  A Reuters investigation found that the Pentagon ran an anti-vax campaign to undermine China during the COVID pandemic. Oh, and this WIGO is NOT part of a Chinese campaign to slander America. I swear. |
63 |  A violent mob of Israeli citizens and elected politicians has stormed an IDF military base holding imprisoned IDF soldiers accused of torturing and raping Palestinian prisoners in an effort to free them. |
63 |  The true death toll for the Gaza genocide, as of September 2024, could be as high as 335,500. |
63 | California bans reparative therapy for minors. |
63 | Anti-vax mother changes her mind after all 7 of her children get whooping cough. And is quite brave to be public about it IMO. |
62 | Roosh V cancels his meetings amid a global backlash against bullshit. Then he gets doxxed by Anonymous and makes a police complaint about the "threats" he's received. Bonus: The "King of Masculinity" lives in his mother's basement. |
62 | Pew Research Center: "If recent trends in religious switching continue, Christians could make up less than half of the U.S. population within a few decades." |
62 | Meta's share price has fallen 26% in one day, wiping $230 billion off the company's value and $29 billion off Zuckerberg's personal wealth after reporting its first ever fall in worldwide users of its platforms including Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.
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62 | Andrew Tate has been indicted on charges of rape, human trafficking, and establishing a criminal gang. |
62 | Steve Bannon ordered to be in his prison cell by July 1st. |
62 |  Rabies is all but eliminated in every part of the world but Africa and Asia, which still suffer tens of thousands of fatalities. An international vaccination effort now seeks to eliminate cases of this lethal disease in humans by 2030. |
62 | Assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania; the ex-President/candidate only grazed on ear, but one bystander killed and three injured. The shooter was registered Republican Thomas Matthew Crooks. |
62 | Xitter has without notice, started to train its Grok AI tool on everyone's data. |
62 |   American protester shot dead by IDF in occupied West Bank. |
62 |   Another person self-immolates in protest of continued American complicity in the Gaza genocide. |
62 |  More ghoulishness from California as California cities crack down on homelessness. Santa Monica is seeking to ban sleeping bags. Fresno has banned camping anywhere within city limits, even when no shelter is available. Multiple other localities are either dusting off old camping bans that haven't been enforced in years, or adding more punitive measures to camping regulations even in localities where camping hasn't been explicitly prohibited. |
62 | The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars site out of bankruptcy, plans to turn it into a parody of itself |
61 | Water quality going down the crapper? We can fix that, says Wyoming, by making it illegal to measure water quality. |
61 | Faux News's recurring "CIA terrorism specialist," Wayne Simmons, arrested for impersonating a CIA agent. |
61 | After the House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, President Donald Trump admitted to the Prime Minister of Australia that Australians have better healthcare. Ironically, Australia's universal healthcare system is called Medicare. |
61 | Queen Elizabeth II has died, aged 96 at Balmoral, Scotland. Her son, Charles goes by Charles III, now that he is King. |
61 | The European Parliament has passed a resolution by 494 to 58, declaring that Russia is a state sponsor of terrorism. Plus it has put the Wagner Group on the list of terrorist organisations, giving it the same status as Hamas, Al-Qaida and ISIL. |
61 | 
In a landmark ruling, a South Korean appeals court has held that government health insurance should offer spousal coverage to same-sex couples. This is the country's first legal recognition of social benefits for same-sex couples. |
61 | UN report reveals that more children are surviving today than ever before, with the global under-5 mortality rate dropping by 51 per cent since 2000. Several low and lower-middle-income countries have outpaced this decline. |
61 | Ed Miliband, the energy security secretary, has lifted the nine-year moratorium on building on-shore wind turbines. |
61 | A faulty antivirus update distributed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has caused the largest IT outage in history, causing billions in damages in the travel, banking, and healthcare industries with no clear end in sight. The issue specifically affects Windows systems, which need to be brought in order manually. |
61 | The deliberate destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza by Israel has led to a polio epidemic in the territory. |
61 | A US District Judge has ruled that Google is maintaining an illegal monopoly. Google plans to appeal. |
61 | Pregnancy From Rape Is 'Something God Intended. Will the stupid never stop? |
61 | In Nevada, a brave Patriot a freeloading, self-centered dipshit named Cliven Bundy lets his cattle graze on government land illegally for the past 20 years, and now the government has confiscated his cows. Tea Party and libertarian whackers too lazy to fact-check make him out to be some sort of hero, and a militia group shows up to defend him. Unsurprisingly, Alex Jones is circle jerking to the news. Update: The BLM gives in to armed protesters. Not a good precedent. |
60 | NJ jury rules that conversion therapy constitutes consumer fraud. |
60 | Leading figures in Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party found guilty of murder, gangsterism, and other crimes following what's called "the biggest trial of neo-fascists since the prosecution of the Nazis at Nuremberg". |
60 |  Ex-Michigan governor Rick Snyder has been informed he will be facing charges for the Flint Water Crisis Update: Snyder is charged with with willful neglect of duty |
60 | The far-left Red–Green Alliance has changed its long-held demand for a Danish referendum on European Union, in favour of reforming it for its 2019 Euro-election manifesto. Party spokesperson Pernille Skipper saying “It was a mistake. Brexit has been an eye-opener for us as a party." |
60 |  Conversion therapy banned in ultra-conservative Utah. |
60 | Leaked US Supreme Court opinion suggests abortion law repeal. Interestingly, this is one of the rare times an opinion is "accidentally" revealed beforehand, leading to speculation that someone intentionally leaked it in hopes of pressuring SCOTUS to change their mind. It's unclear what this means on a State level, but expect a plethora of states (with a certain balance of legislators) suddenly deciding to criminalize abortions. |
60 |  Donald Trump indicted by Manhattan grand jury |
60 | Most EU countries are now expected to hit their 2030 solar targets years before 2030, fuelling optimism on efforts to bring down global emissions. |
60 | Parler, a conservative Twitter wannabe social network, is shut down by new owner, saying "No reasonable person believes that a Twitter clone just for conservatives is a viable business any more..." (News source) |
60 |  The Nato military alliance formally welcomes its 32nd member; Sweden, ending over 200 years of formal Swedish neutrality. |
60 |   Algerian Olympic boxer Imane Khelif has filed an "aggravated cyber harassment" complaint against Twitter with the French judicial institution responsible for online hate cases (PNLH). Khelif was one of two female Olympic boxers that were bullied and "transvestigated" by online trolls during the 2024 Olympics. Among the trolls directly named in the complaint are J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk. |
60 |  Israel is exploiting African asylum seekers for dangerous military service in Gaza, promising permanent residency in exchange for service. |
60 | DOMA officially struck down by SCOTUS, declared unconstitutional as a violation of the Fifth Amendment. The court case, U.S. v. Windsor, was over the estate tax, claiming discrimination against a lesbian widow on basis of sex. Meanwhile,teabaggers' heads explode. ADDITIONAL GAYNESS: No decision on Prop 8 ruling,lower court ruling upheld, same sex marriage legal inCalifornia. |
60 | In Pakistan, clerics issue a fatwa against honor killings. |
59 | Welcome back Philae, nice to hear from you again |
59 | With Prime Minister Theresa May fresh in power, the cabinet now consists of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary (presumably to see if he can actually get France to nuke Britain), and Philip Hammond as Chancellor of the Exchequer, with George Osborne resigning from the government entirely. Hammond immediately goes against the Brexiters' wishes by stating that it would take six years to leave. |
59 | Military coup underway in Turkey. Update: the coup appears to be failing, only backed by a faction in the military. 2,839 soldiers have been arrested since the coup has failed. Erdogan is now requesting the US extradite Gulen, the Islamic cleric he believes inspired the coup. 6,000 people have now been reportedly arrested in the aftermath of the coup. 2.700 judges have also been removed from their positions. |
59 | Vote up if you approve of the job United States President Barack Obama is doing or vote down if you disapprove. Vote neutral if you neither approve nor disapprove. |
59 | The Trump administration has apparently banned the CDC from using words like "science-based", "evidence-based", "vulnerable", and "transgender" in any budget-related official documents. |
59 | Steve Bannon steps down from Breitbart. |
59 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg announces that she's cancer free! |
59 | After 45 days in office, Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister, to be replaced by ex-Chancellor (and runner up of previous election) Rishi Sunak. |
59 | UK toddler has hearing restored in world first gene therapy trial |
59 |    Israel is lobbying United States Congress to pressure South Africa to drop its genocide case. |
59 | The Britons are set to pass gay marriage! |
59 | Quakers running new Underground Railroad to help LGBT folk escape Uganda. |
58 | Donald Trump looks to make a national database of Muslim Americans. No word yet on demanding they wear green crescents in public. |
58 | SCOTUS rules in a 6 to 3 decision that Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act does protect workers from being fired because they are gay or transgender. (The opinion). Roberts and Gorsuch joined the four liberal judges in the majority. |
58 |  While the world was distracted by the US elections, Israel carried out the largest bulldozing operation against Palestinian homes in the last decade. They apparently hoped to avoid international criticism with their timing. |
58 | Parler is now in severe difficulties, after the app stores Google Play, Apple App Store & Amazon Appstore removed the company's own app from their stores. Plus, Amazon's AWS has threatened to pull their hosting of the service due to possible violations of service. Update: Parler has now been booted off AWS. |
58 | Well that didn't take long........"Leave" leaders walking away from Brexit promises |
58 | Steve Bannon removed from National Security Council role. |
58 | The Washington Post busts a transparent attempt by Project Veritas to trip them up in their investigation of Roy Moore's sex abuse scandal. Short version: a woman went to the Post claiming that Moore impregnated her as a teenager, and she was suspiciously interested in seeing to it that Moore lost his campaign for Senate. (Non-paywalled version, though still bitchy about adblock.) |
58 | Proposition 8 overturned by federal judge. |
58 |  A judge has ordered Alex Jones to pay $100 000 in a defamation case against the parents of a 6-year-old victim of the Sandy Hook tragedy, which Jones claimed was a hoax. |
58 |  British House of Commons declares Uighurs are being subjected to genocide in China and approves a motion calling on the government to fulfil its obligations under international human rights law. |
58 | Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence has been raided by the FBI. |
58 | Another crypto Ponzi scheme fails spectacularly, vaporizing US$10 billion. A Reckoning Awaits FTX. And as if this situation couldn't get any worse, OMG WE'VE BEEN HACKED!!!!1! |
58 | With Obama's signature, DADT is gone! |
58 | MSG Entertainment defends using facial recognition scan that flagged girl scout mom as security risk at a music hall. The kicker? She works for a law company suing MSG Entertainment. MSG took facial scans of the lawyers suing them and put it into their systems. People who say "if you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear" should pay attention to this. This woman had nothing to hide and she still was targeted. |
58 |  After two decades of consideration and talks, a treaty has been finalized to protect the oceans outside of territorial waters. |
58 |  A large survey taken across 140 countries finds that Catholic women overwhelmingly want the church to reform its stances on LGBT issues, contraception, and women's issues. The study's results will be presented at the Vatican on International Women's Day. (Non-Paywall version.) |
58 | The Supreme Court has upheld the law that bans those convicted of domestic violence from owning guns in a 8-1 ruling. Only Clarence Thomas dissented. |
58 | "Gay furry hackers" (SiegedSec) claim to have hacked the Heritage Foundation for making Project 2025. Update: Director of the Heritage Foundation's "Oversight Project" contacted one of the hackers and called him a pervert, then said he'll get "pounded in the ass" in prison. Then SiegedSec disbanded. |
58 |   The UK has quietly dropped its opposition to the planned arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant. |
58 | As a result of the genocidal war in Gaza, Israel's economy is in freefall. |
58 | X Corp. says Twitter should not have to pay fines for failing to adequately respond to questions about their moderation of child sexual abuse content from the Australian government. Their reasoning given in court for why not to pay the fines is "Twitter has ceased to exist." |
58 | The LGBT Jim Crow equivalent has been proposed in Kansas. Fucking hell. |
58 | If Obama is for environmentalism -- or anything else, for that matter -- then we're against it in the stupidest way possible. |
58 | Israel says "fuck you" to 20% of its population. |
57 | California court rules that abstinence-only sex education is "medically inaccurate" and therefore unlawful under state law. |
57 | Live coverage of the hundreds of thousands of protesters taking part in the Women's March in the US - and around the world. UPDATE: With US turnout numbers estimated at around 3.5 million people, this marks the single largest protest march in the history of the United States.vote poll=world15436>Live coverage of the hundreds of thousands of protesters taking part in the Women's March in the US - and around the world. UPDATE: With US turnout numbers estimated at around 3.5 million people, this marks the single largest protest march in the history of the United States. |
57 | What the Hell is even going on anymore? White House press secretary Sean Spicer said, "You had someone who was despicable as Hitler who didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." When immediately called out by reporters in the room over holocaust denial, he fumbles the clarification, "Thank you, I appreciate that. There was not in the – he brought them into the Holocaust centers – I understand that. But I’m saying in the way that Assad used them, where he went into towns, dropped them down into the middle of towns." Also, note in the video he almost said "where he went into towns and dropped them to innocent", then managed corrected himself realizing how much worse he almost made it. |
57 |  Trump Organisation found guilty of tax crimes. |
57 | Steve Bannon charged with contempt of Congress after his failure to appear for a deposition and hand over documents to the January 6 Attack House Select Committee. |
57 | After 122 years and 200 failed attempts, the Senate unanimously passes a bill that specifically criminalizes lynching. |
57 | Donald Trump has reportedly been indicted in the special counsel’s classified documents probe, marking the first time a former president has faced federal charges. Update: Per the unsealed indictment, the indictment includes 37 counts spread over seven charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, willful retention of national defense information, and multiple concealment charges. |
57 |  U.S. economy outpaces Chinese economy for the first time in 40 years |
57 | A first step in finding a cure for diabetes: One person with diabetes has been completely cured and no longer needs daily insulin. |
57 |  Things are getting better with news that the Tate Brothers Andrew and Tristan, are now under investigation by Devon & Cornwall police for tax evasion |
57 |  After years of negotiation, Joe Biden has secured the release of 16 hostages from Russia: 4 from the United States, and others from Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway and Turkey. Russia also released some of its own political prisoners into Germany as part of the deal. In exchange, Russia will receive 8 of its people imprisoned by Western nations. This is the largest hostage exchange deal since the Cold War. |
57 | Elon Musk creates a PAC that steals personal information from voters in swing states by tricking them into thinking they have registered to vote, seemingly to help Donald Trump get re-elected. And which party is the one that cries "fraud!!!!" all the time? |
57 | Cards Against Humanity LLC, the company behind the popular card game, sues SpaceX due to the illegal takeover and development of a strip of US-Mexico border land to store materials and equipment. Cards Against Humanity LLC purchased the land in 2017 to intentionally impede former president Trump's plans for a border wall. |
57 |   Morocco court to try IDF soldier for war crimes in Gaza. |
57 | Introducing the two latest contestants in the GOP's balls-to-the-wall batshit crazy contest -- state representative Jon Hubbard and candidate Charlie Fuqua, both of Arkansas. Hubbard has trotted out the old white-hood canard that slavery was good for the slaves, while Fuqua advocates in his book God's Law that all Muslims should be expelled from the US. Not satisfied with a tie, Fuqua has now gone the extra distance by advocating the death penalty for rebellious children. Take that, Todd Akin!! |
57 | President Obama to parents doubting ‘indisputable’ science: ‘Get your kids vaccinated’ |
56 | House Democrats have proposed a bill that would update the Civil Rights Act to include LGBT people. |
56 | Reformists in Iran win every seat in Tehran parliament. Guess they forgot to rig the vote the way they did a few years ago? Oh, they rigged this one too, but there are limits to how much you can rig while being "subtle". |
56 | For the first time, wind and solar made up a majority of the world's new power generation |
56 | The two voting machine companies Smartmatic and Dominion are suing Fox News, Newsmax and OANN for defamation for claiming they rigged the presidential elections. The New York Times reports that this lawsuit could bankrupt the news channels. |
56 | Perseverance lands on Mars. |
56 | The FCC votes to restore net neutrality. |
56 | Brazilian police indict former president Jair Bolsonaro for embezzling $1.2 million worth of Saudi jewelry. |
56 |  The city of Tulsa has created a commission to recommend how reparations can be made to survivors (but mostly their descendants as only 2 remain) of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. |
56 |  The Workplace Relations Commission has ordered X/Twitter to pay €550 000 compensation for illegally sacking a senior executive at their Irish operations. |
56 |  A Haaretz investigation has found that the IDF has used Gazan civilians as human shields to inspect potentially booby-trapped tunnels. |
56 |  Palestinian voices are ignored at the DNC as no Palestinian-American speakers were given time slots at the convention. |
56 |   A major dispute over the Philadelphi corridor, a narrow strip of scrubland and sand dunes along the Gaza-Egypt border, has ground ceasefire talks to a halt. Netanyahu insists on Israeli control of the corridor to stop weapons from entering Gaza, but Egypt angrily denies this ever happened. Some figures in Netanyahu's cabinet want him to back down. |
56 |   Israeli troops have raided Al Jazeera's press office in the West Bank, seizing equipment and literally welding the office's doors shut to keep it closed down. Ramallah, the city in which this happened, should legally be under full Palestinian political and security control. |
56 | Nick Fuentes arrested after throwing a woman who showed up at his house and rang his doorbell down stairs and pepper spraying her. |
56 | The first man to walk on another world, Neil Armstrong, has died at the age of 82. His family asks "Next time you walk outside on clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil and give him a wink." |
56 | 15% of Ohio Republicans believe Romney killed bin Laden.[No, not The Onion] |
56 | After two years, a documentary about vaccination, made by high school students and suppressed by anti-vaxx activists, has finally been released. |
56 | Bernie Sanders is officially running |
55 | A Jewish terrorist stabbed an Israeli grocer, shouting, "You deserve it, you deserve it, Arab bastards!" The grocer is Jewish. A former director of Israel's security services reports that Jew-on-Arab terrorism is nearly never punished in Israel. But this stabber mistakenly stabbed a fellow Jew, so he might be in big trouble, even tho the grocer victim says it shouldn't matter whether he was an Arab or a Jew. |
55 | Steve Bannon arrested for fraud. Apparently the crowdfunded border wall was a scam |
55 | Joe Biden has been officially sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. |
55 | Nigel Farage stands down as leader of UKIP. |
55 |  A Ugandan-born woman becomes the first person in the UK to be found guilty of the crime of female genital mutilation for harm she did to her 3-year-old-daughter and is sentenced to 11 years in jail. |
55 | Trump 28 Feb 2020: "The coronavirus is the Democrats' new hoax."
Trump 17 Mar 2020: "I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic."
UPDATE Trump 18 Mar 2020: "The coronavirus snuck up on us." |
55 | Protests erupt in Iran after woman dies in the custody of morality police. |
55 | In Amsterdam, a scheme offering PrEP to anyone has reported a 95% drop in new cases of HIV/AIDS since 2010. For example, there were 128 new cases in 2019, in 2022, there were just nine new cases. |
55 | 
Thailand approves equal marriage rights for gay people. |
55 | 
Namibian high court strikes down two colonial-era laws banning gay sex. |
55 | 
The Polish government has introduced a bill to its agenda that would allow same-sex civil partnerships. |
55 |   The Green Party has made a formal complaint about the BBC’s lack of coverage of the party during its elections coverage and results. |
55 |  Israel's latest war crime: bombing a school, killing over 100 Palestinians, mostly children, according to the Gaza health ministry. |
55 | 
Thailand legalizes same-sex marriage. |
55 | According to Rick Perry, "Satan runs wild across the world," and the separation of Church and State is hence Satan's fault. |
55 | In view of the Hobby Lobby decision, the Satanic Temple strikes back by filing a lawsuit to exempt their followers from reading pro-life literature which is required in some states when planning to have an abortion. Their argument is that since their beliefs are solely based on scientific facts, and because much of this literature's content is not based on science, having to read it would inflict their freedom of religion. |
55 | Charlie Hebdo: What do you do after much of your staff is murdered on the job? Cease publication? Suspend operations temporarily? How about publish next week's issue on schedule and print over 20 times the standard run. |
54 |  Neo-Nazi arrested in North Carolina hoped to assassinate Joe Biden, had a huge stockpile of guns and child pornography. Nasty guy. |
54 | Canada's national security minister Bill Blair is looking into whether making the Proud Boys group an official terrorist organization. That would put in the same category as Daesh and al-Qaida. |
54 | And like clockwork the GOP loses an election and suddenly there are calls to promote “election integrity.” |
54 | Inauguration desperation: the Trump team tries to shift surplus tickets by offering them for free and running paid Facebook ads that tell random users that "President-elect Trump wants to personally invite you." Even ticket scalpers are making a loss. |
54 | Reuters instructs its staff to cover the Trump Presidency the same way it covers authoritarian regimes in other countries where journalists are routinely shut out, censored and harassed. |
54 | Major Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Website Stormfront Has Been Kicked Offline |
54 | InfoWars files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, due to the lawsuits in regards to the Sandy Hook shootings. |
54 | Hopp Schwiiz! Switzerland has voted by nearly two to one (64% to 36%) and in ALL 26 cantons to legalize same-sex marriage. Update: The Federal Council has said the first marriages could happen by July next year. |
54 |
The leader of the Oath Keepers Stewart Rhodes, and ten other people associated with the group, have been arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy of the 2021 U.S. Capital attack. CNN adds, "It destroys, once and for all, the talking point from those downplaying the events of January 6 that the attack on the Capitol wasn't an insurrection because nobody has been charged with sedition." |
54 | Southern Baptist Convention membership continues to decline at record pace. Perhaps helped along by the sex abuse scandal. |
54 |  The Bible is banned in a Utah school district after complaint that it is "sex-ridden". This occurs as a result of "a 2022 state law requiring districts to include parents in decisions over what constitutes 'sensitive material.'" The law has been used to withhold other books from schools. |
54 |  South African government commits to arresting Vladimir Putin if he sets foot in country, per International Criminal Court obligations. A warrant for his arrest is to be issued. Putin decided not to attend the BRICS summit in South Africa in August, anticipating this. |
54 | Donald Trump charged with 4 counts, including conspiring to defraud the US, over his handling of his 2020 election loss. Update: Of course, he has pleaded not guilty on all 4 counts |
54 | Mexico's supreme court decriminalizes abortion nationwide. |
54 |  Some good news for Ukraine, Hungary finally caves and allows a €50 billion EU aid package for Ukraine to go through that Orbán previously threatened to veto. |
54 | The experiment of a 'four day week' at South Cambridgeshire Council is a significant success - reducing costs and improving service metrics. Even better; due to the early general election, the ideologically-based attacks on it from the Conservative controlled central government are most likely to be at an end. |
54 |  The UN projects that the global human population will peak at 10.3 billion in the 2080s and then begin to decrease. Meanwhile, global life expectancy has begun to climb again for the first time since the COVID pandemic. |
54 | 
UK's Labour reportedly intends to ban conversion therapy. |
54 |  Venezuela, even though it is one of the biggest oil producing countries in the world, has refining problems and had to import petrol from Iran. Unfortunately the quality of the petrol is so bad due to the low octane, which has led to breaking and even exploding vehicles. This is, in part, the result of years of crippling sanctions imposed by the US, which may be lifted depending on the result of tomorrow's election. |
54 |  The UK is quietly reviewing arms export licences to Israel. |
54 |   The US will continue to funnel aid to IDF unit guilty of human rights violations in the West Bank, Blinken rules. |
54 |  Israel is about to launch a ground invasion on Lebanon. Update: The invasion has commenced. |
54 |  Iran launches major missile attack on Israel |
54 | Over 50% of Kiwis now have no identifiable religious beliefs according to the latest census data. |
54 | Another week, another Romney gaffe. And the shit just keeps on flowing. |
54 | In the UK, religious schools will lose government funding if they don't teach evolution as a fact. |
54 | Margaret Thatcher is dead. |
54 | Sorry to rain on your parade, New Mexico: A federal judge has smashed another same-sex marriage ban. In Utah. Update: "The court agrees with Justice Scalia’s interpretation of Windsor and finds that the important federalism concerns at issue here are nevertheless insufficient to save a state-law prohibition that denies the Plaintiffs their rights." Yes, you read that correctly - Scalia's opinion was just used against him. (Grab some popcorn.) |
54 | The much anticipated debate between Bill Nye and creationist whacker Ken Ham finally unfolds. Nye and science won. |
54 | Here we go again: Six dead in a series of drive-by shootings and stabbings near UC Santa Barbara. (Gunman was the son of a Hollywood director and quoting the usual MRA spiel.) Update: An "incel" site is freaking. Update II: All guns legally purchased and registered. "When will this insanity stop?" |
54 | Belgium gives homeopathy statutory regulation. Nobody meets statutory criteria. Homeopathy effectively banned. (Still operating until the statutory guillotine falls.) |
54 | President Obama uses this year's turkey pardon to stick it to the GOP on immigration: "I am here to announce what I'm sure will be the most talked about executive action this month. Today, I am taking an action fully within my legal authority, the same kind of action taken by Democrats and Republican presidents before me, to spare the lives of two turkeys, Mac and Cheese, from a terrible and delicious fate. . . They'll get to live out the rest of their days respectively at a Virginia estate with 10,000 acres of roaming space. I know some will call this amnesty." |
54 | Started a week ago, but in case you missed it: In what is called the biggest banking leak in history, over 50 media outlets around the world publish documents, showing that the Swiss arm of the HSBC bank actively helped their customers evade taxes in their home countries. Among them are high-value criminals and, on the same other side, prominent persons and wealthy donors of Clinton's charity or the British Tory party. Side note: The revelations came at a time when Ed Miliband was under fire for being “anti-business” because of his agenda against tax evasion by businesses. Now Cameron has to explain why he made the former HSBC boss Stephen Green his trade minister back in 2011, four months after the first evidence for misbehavior by HSBC was available to him; and why the British tax authority achieved four-times worse in enforcing tax repayals compared to France or Spain. Timeline of events leading up to this, Full story. |
53 | Yet another major "defeat for humanity" from a largely Catholic country: With little fanfare, Mexico's supreme court has ruled laws limiting marriage to heterosexuals discriminatory, effectively legalizing same-sex marriage. This means the Greatest Country on Earth will be the last country in North America, and one of the last in the developed world, to do the same. |
53 | Obama plans mass clemency for nonviolent drug offenders. |
53 | Armed Oregon militia led by Cliven Bundy's sons takes federal building in support of Hammond ranchers convicted of setting illegal fires on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property. Vow to stay, fight police. |
53 | A paralyzed man has regained the ability to control his arm through a computer chip that was surgically implanted in his brain. |
53 | Of all the people, Donald Trump supports transgender rights to use whichever bathroom they want, and criticized the North Carolina bathroom bill. |
53 | The GOP's piggy bank, Sheldon Adelson, dead at 87. |
53 | Justice prevails, as the right Schlafly beats the wrong Schlafly. |
53 | A dinosaur's feathery tail was found preserved in amber. |
53 | The Pope says "an atheist is better than a hypocritical Catholic." |
53 | Widower murders naturopath who told his cancer-stricken wife 'chemotherapy is for losers'. |
53 | Worst mass shooting by a single individual in the US, this time at a country music festival in Las Vegas. Currently tied with the Orlando shooting for number dead but far more injured (and the number of dead may rise). Third worst rampage killing of all time (behind Breivik and the Nice mass murders) The shooter was a wealthy real-estate investor. |
53 | Taiwan legalizes same-sex marriage in first for Asia |
53 | Benjamin Netanyahu has just been indicted! |
53 | Boris Johnson will resign as Conservative Party leader, and plans to stand down as Prime Minister in the Autumn after the election of his successor. |
53 | The Ukrainian Armed Forces have captured the strategically important city of Izyum in the east of the country, and are now heading towards Donetsk Airport. |
53 | Large protests have erupted in many Russian cities including St Petersburg, Moscow, Ufa, Yekaterinburg, and Irkutsk, plus a rush for airline tickets to leave the country, after Putin ordered partial military mobilization of Russia's reserve armed forces. |
53 | For the first time ever, for five hours on Friday, October 7th, Greece's electricity needs were fulfilled solely by renewable power, marking a milestone. |
53 |  R. Kelly found guilty of sex trafficking |
53 | US District Court orders Donald Trump to pay $937,989.39 to Hillary Clinton over frivolous lawsuits. |
53 | Anti-Obamacare provisions in state constitutions backfire on conservatives; the "right to make [...] health care decisions" is interpreted by courts to cover abortion rights. |
53 | 
Biggest-ever study of trans Americans found that 94% of them are happier after social transition, and 98% are happier after physical transition. (PDF of the full "early insights" report here.) |
53 | A Norwegian court has banned state funding for Jehovah's Witnesses. |
53 |  The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif and Yahya Sinwar. |
53 | Hamas and Fatah agree to form a future government together, in a reconciliation attempt arranged by China between the two major Palestinian factions. |
53 | The European Commission’s Thierry Breton has warned X/Twitter that they must follow The Digital Service Act, or they would face serious consequences including substantial fines. |
53 |  Hezbollah confirms that an Israeli airstrike in Beirut has killed its longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah. |
53 | We currently cannot predict earthquakes, but when someone dies we need a scapegoat. |
53 | According to Republican Washington state legislator Ed Orcutt, a proposed bicycle tax is essential because cyclists aren't environmentally friendly due to all the CO2 they exhale. "[b]icyclists need to start paying for the roads they ride on rather than make motorists pay". |
53 | Croatian Constitutional Court upholds the constitutionality of mandatory vaccination of children, stating that the right of children to have good health is more important than the right of parents to make wrong decisions.(In English.) |
53 | So, how bad is it to be an African-American in Ferguson, Missouri? In 2009, the Ferguson PD arrested and (allegedly) beat a man inside the police station after finding out that they had arrested the wrong man. Then they charged him with "property damage" -- Translation: Bleeding on their uniforms after they beat him. |
53 | Well, gosh: crocoduck just showed up. Guess evolution must be true, then. |
53 | Air Force: 'So help me God' in oath is optional |
53 | Ohioan county jail threatens solitary confinement on a Muslim woman for refusing to go to Church; woman sues state for violating the constitution. |
53 | Charlie Hebdo's Paris office was attacked by Islamists, 12 people dead. UPDATE: The shooters have reportedly been identified; one has reportedly turned himself into the police, claiming he was not in Paris the day of the shooting. |
53 | Anti-vax book "Melanie’s Marvelous Measles" gets 800 one-star reviews on Amazon. |
52 | Senate blocks bid to deny funds to Planned Parenthood. |
52 | Not sure if real or The Onion... Trump puts up a plaque at a golf club he owns near the Potomac river, commemorating the "Many great American soldiers, both of the North and South, [that] died at this spot", and that they were so many that the river got called "The River of Blood". Problem is, it never happened. Trump responds: "“How would they know that?” Mr. Trump asked when told that local historians had called his plaque a fiction. “Were they there?”". |
52 | Where’s Bernie? Media ignores Sanders though he’s more popular than Trump |
52 | Gen Z pranks Trump by requesting tickets to a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on June 20, 2020 by the hundreds of thousands. This inflated the expectations of the Trump campaign, and caused Trump to plan for an overflow stage, expecting massive crowds. Actual attendance was much, much lower than expected; the overflow stage was canceled, and Trump ended up speaking to a crowd of just an estimated 6200 (out of 19,200 capacity seats). Naturally the campaign denies it was anything to do with that - It was the evil leftists and online trolls! The astute might note that this is not actually exclusive of teens and K-pop fans. |
52 | Pvt. Bonespurs, a patriot, honors the fallen: "Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers." Update: reports of Trump disparaging fallen and wounded service members confirmed by the Associated Press. Update (!!): Et tu, Fox News?! |
52 |  Facebook bans QAnon across its platforms. |
52 | A Texas law making abortions more difficult was found unconstitutional. |
52 | Saudi Arabia criticized by 36 countries over human rights. |
52 | French cardinal convicted of child sex abuse cover-up. |
52 | He's out! Benjamin Netanyahu has been ousted as prime minister of Israel, however far-right politician Naftali Bennett has been sworn in as prime minister. |
52 |
Disney refuses to cut a scene of two women in love kissing from the animated film Lightyear, even though that scene has already led to the film getting banned in 14 countries and is likely to get it banned in more. |
52 | Dutch scientists have found that anti-5G "quantum pendants" emit dangerous levels of ionizing radiation - in other words they're radioactive. |
52 |  NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope launches on epic mission to study early universe |
52 | For the first time ever, polling in Finland has shown a majority of Finns supporting the country joining NATO, with 53% saying yes to 28% saying no. |
52 | France's National Assembly has voted unanimously by all of its deputies, a resolution on the calling on the European Union to formally label Russian mercenary force Wagner a "terrorist group". In response to the call, the head of Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin, has responded by threatening to pull all the teeth out of French president Emmanuel Macron. |
52 | Pat Robertson of The 700 Club has died at the age of 93. |
52 |   UN top court says Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories is illegal. |
52 |  
Israel's intelligence agencies have been targeting and blackmailing, often by posing as potential partners, queer Palestinians into becoming informants by threatening to expose their sexualities to their friends and families. One man describes being arrested and beaten by Israeli soldiers at an Israeli checkpoint for having Grindr on his phone. |
52 |  Israel's attacks on Lebanon have already displaced 140,000 kids as Netanyahu vows to continue the carpet bombing. |
52 | The White House's response to the Death Star petition is made of win. Update: Best comment so far. |
52 | Years of scientific research being burned and lost in Canada. Claims that it's all backed up digitally are proving to be untrue. It's almost as if the Harper government is afraid of the data. |
52 | On Christmas day, Neil deGrasse Tyson posted this tweet and Christian fundamentalists lost their collective shit guaranteeing increased coverage. On the 27th, NDT commented on the kerfuffle and the fun continued (including in the Facebook comment section at the bottom of the page). |
52 | Chimpanzees in Fongoli, Senegal, have invented spears. |
51 | Nigeria bans female genital mutilation. |
51 | The EU parliament approves a resolution that calls on the member states to drop charges against Edward Snowden. |
51 | Leaked documents reveal that members of the Dothan, Alabama police force belonged to a Neoconfederate organization, and routinely planted drugs on young black men with the cooperation of the district attorney. |
51 |    A study from the University of Gothenburg has found that, since the year 2000, the Republican Party has abandoned upholding democratic norms and resembles nationalist parties in autocratic nations like in Hungary and Turkey |
51 | Hate crimes in the UK up 57% according to Huffington Post following Brexit vote |
51 | Trump Jr. admits he met with a Russian lawyer with Kremlin ties during the 2016 election to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. This statement could place him in legal trouble. |
51 | Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been indicted on charges that he funneled millions of dollars through overseas shell companies. Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign official, has also surrendered to federal authorities. The indictment of Manafort and Gates makes no mention of Trump or election meddling. Update: Trump's response: "Sorry, but this is years ago, before Paul Manafort was part of the Trump campaign. But why aren't Crooked Hillary & the Dems the focus????? ....Also, there is NO COLLUSION!" |
51 |  Venezuela has put down an attempted invasion from pro-Guaidó rebels. The force, backed by American paramilitary security firm, SilverCorp, was reduced in size over the past month from 300 to 60 due to the Coronavirus outbreak and the arrest of the rebel leader for drug smuggling. The subsequent invasion was publicly announced on Twitter, and presently Venezuelan authorities are holding thirteen, including two Americans, on terrorism charges. Further stupidity: It's actually more absurd than just the Twitter announcement. On 1 May, the Associated Press reported on these chuckle heads' idiotic plot to invade Venezuela. On 3 May, they tried to carry the plot out, after the Associated press reported all about it. |
51 |  Solar and wind costs have fallen enough in the United States that roughly ¾ of of coal capacity is at risk from renewable competition, and by 2025 this is expected to rise to 6/7. Furthermore, while the US acquired nearly half of its electricity from coal just a decade ago, in just another year it's expected to be just a quarter. Wind is also expected to produce more energy than hydro in the US in just a short time as well. |
51 | Suspending Parliament was unlawful, the Supreme Court rules. |
51 | The Supreme Court of South Carolina has struck down the state's abortion ban, saying it breaks the state's constitutional right to privacy. |
51 |  Putin tried to blackmail Europe by cutting off Russian gas. But Europe successfully found alternatives and couldn't be blackmailed. |
51 | 
Latvia's parliament legalizes gay civil unions. |
51 | A preserved woolly mammoth genome is reported in Cell and some people want to use it to revive the mammoths. Maybe we can hunt them to extinction a second time. |
51 |  In a blow to Mike Johnson's old fundamentalist legal group Alliance Defending Freedom, as well as associated groups like the American College of Pediatricians (who were co-plaintiffs), the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled that these groups lacked legal standing to challenge the FDA's regulation of the abortion inducing drug mifepristone, preserving access to this medication. |
51 |  Israel has bombed targets across southern Lebanon, killing 274 people, including women and children, and wounding over 1,000. |
51 |  Amnesty International releases report saying Israel is committing intentional and calculated genocide against Palestinians. Israel's Foreign Ministry calls report "entirely false". |
51 | North Carolina's Tea Party-dominated legislature moves to criminalize accurate predictions of sea level rise. Trends: they don't work that way. |
51 | Former Green Bay Packer LeRoy Butler was scheduled to give a lecture at a local church on Tuesday night. Butler's presentation was cancelled after he tweeted congratulations to Jason Collins for coming out of the closet. The pastor told Butler that he would only be allowed to give his presentation if he retracted the tweet and asked Gawd for forgiveness. The subject of that night's discussion? Bullying. |
51 | Jordan votes to repeal its "marry the rapist" law. |
51 | FUCK! The Professional Standards Authority has accredited the Society of Homeopaths as a holder of an approved voluntary register of health-care practitioners. (UK) What is this country coming to? |
51 | In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has struck down laws against assisted suicide |
51 | Oklahoma GOP lawmakers protecting your precious kids from that there book larnin': they have literally passed emergency legislation to ban AP US History classes, partially on the grounds that it's not nothing but pro-US propaganda. Some want to ban all AP classes. UPDATE: Instead, students would have to study the 10 Commandments and speeches by Saint Ronnie. |
51 | Score a win for net neutrality Update: That didn't take long Update: Now verizon starts trolling. |
50 | Burning socialist Bernie Sanders attracts larger crowds than any other 2016 presidential candidate. And while we are at it, rabblerouser Elizabeth Warren continues to attract cheering crowds even if she is not running. |
50 | ...except that the preschool teacher made it up. |
50 | 30% of Republicans support bombing Agrabah. Agrabah is the fictional sultanate of Disney's Aladdin. Also, 41% of Trump supporters. 19% of Democrats. |
50 | A grand jury in Texas has cleared Planned Parenthood of any wrongdoing in the video manufactroversy, and surprisingly indicts two of their accusers. |
50 | Massive amount of news comes out of Israel: The UN condemns the occupation of the Palestinian territories and in response France proposes peace talks and threatens to recognize Palestine as a sovereign state if they fail. There is hope that, according to the UN, that Israel and Iran are likely to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Also the Snowden reveals that the US and UK have been hacking Israeli drones in order to spy on the IDF. |
50 | In the ongoing process of becoming an increasingly totalitarian state, Turkey's government seeks to drop secularism from its constitution. The reasons given are that Muslim countries apparently require religious constitutions and except for two other countries, other nations don't explicitly mention secularism in their constitutions either. It's also blasphemous that the text doesn't mention His name even once. |
50 |  New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced that she has filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association and four individuals, including longtime leader Wayne LaPierre, seeking to dissolve the gun rights advocacy group for "diverting charitable funds to support wasteful spending." |
50 | 50 dead, 53 wounded in mass shooting at Florida gay club. Shooter is reported to be American-born Muslim. A speaker at a mosque about 20 miles from the massacre site quoted a text advocating killing gays, 'out of compassion'. It's not clear if Farrokh Sekaleshfar quoted that text at the nearby mosque or elsewhere. |
50 | The Washington DC Metro (subway) confirms that the Women's March on Washington gave them their second busiest day ever on Saturday, second only to President Obama's Inauguration Day in 2009. By comparison, Donald Trump's Inauguration Day on Friday generated slightly fewer journeys than the average for a normal weekday. |
50 | Donald Trump's approval ratings drop to 37% less than three months into his presidency. |
50 | Chelsea Manning has been released from prison. |
50 | As Trump’s problems mount, Breitbart’s numbers are cratering. |
50 | James Fields, the man who drove his car into a crowd of counterprotestors at the Unite the Right rally, has been sentenced to life in prison. |
50 | We're all weeping; Alex Jones files for personal bankruptcy after trying to hide his assets among relatives and friends. |
50 |  A Texas judge finds Alex Jones liable for damages in three defamation lawsuits brought by the parents of children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre over his claims that the shooting was a hoax. The cases now head to trial for juries to determine the amount Jones will have to pay the families. |
50 | Medical start-up Theranos’ founder Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one account of conspiracy to commit wire fraud against investors. She could face up to 80 years in jail. |
50 | US authorities believe it is "very unlikely" that a mysterious illness dubbed "Havana Syndrome" is caused by a hostile foreign power |
50 | US Senate votes to repeal Iraq war authorizations. |
50 | Donald Trump has been arrested and has pleaded not guilty. He was fingerprinted, but no mug shot was taken. |
50 | High growth and unprecedent decline in inequality have combined to eliminate extreme poverty in India, which represented 50% of the population 30 years ago. The country should now graduate to a higher poverty line, which would provide an opportunity to redefine existing social protection programs in order to give greater support to the genuine poor. |
50 |  Pentagon report finds no evidence of alien visits, hidden spacecraft: Claims about secret government programs reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology are based on “circular reporting” and hearsay, investigators found. |
50 | 
A legal settlement on Florida's "Don't Say Gay" law has been reached. The settlement allows that sexual orientation and gender identity may be discussed in classrooms as long as it isn't part of the class's formal instruction. This allows, for instance, for Gay-Straight Alliances to exist in schools, for teachers to openly identify themselves as gay or transgender, and for books with LGBT+ themes to be stocked in school libraries. |
50 |   Massive floods in Indian subcontinent; monsoon season is too early and heavier than usual. Climate change is to be suspected as a culprit. |
50 | Obama to Trump: Go fuck yourself. lol. (Seth Meyers, on the other hand doesn't pull any punches.) |
50 | Faux News, classy as ever, blames the Norwegian attacks on "Muslim extremists", then segues straight into a story on the Ground Zero Mosque. Here's the twist: the lead suspect is a blond, blue eyed, right-wing Christian fundamentalist with anti-Muslim views. |
50 | Sometimes you can't make this shit up: Rick Santorum Says "Smart People Will Never Be On Our Side" |
50 | Madiba has passed away at 95. |
50 | Female Texas Judge declares raped teen not a victim, because she wasn't a virgin at the time. |
50 | Archbishop seriously claims he didn't know if raping children was against the law. Really.
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50 | A kid tries to come out as gay. His family is less than understanding. Watch the video only if you want to feel depressed. The last couple of minutes are particularly painful. You can help him live without the bigots here if you feel moved enough. |
50 | Take us down the slippery slope, part umpteen: Now the aftermath of the Hobby Lobby decision now extends to allowing the refusal of subpoenas due to violation of religious beliefs. |
50 | Malala Yousafzai shares the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. |
50 | Sorry, Harry Reid, you're too Democratic to be a Mormon. |
50 | Barack Obama calls for end to 'conversion therapies' for LGBT youth |